Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

The host in the machine

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When Art Rhyno got his computer science degree in 1988, his first job was reinventing the wheel. As a systems librarian at Memorial University, he helped the library move its computer operations from inflexible commercial ... Read More »

May 12, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

The great graphic novel rush

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As public awareness of graphic novels increases, so does the genre’s mainstream popularity. But while media coverage tends to focus on graphic novels for adults, librarians have been paying particular attention to the ones aimed ... Read More »

May 12, 2005

Measuring up

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In the popular imagination, librarians are avatars of order; they sit upright behind their desks, totally composed, masters of a calm, unchanging domain. In reality, of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Over ... Read More »

May 12, 2005

Snapshot: Margaret Eaton

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Margaret Eaton took over as the executive director of the Association of Canadian Publishers in mid-February. Coming from the Canadian Magazine Publishers Association, where she spent the last two years as general manager, Eaton, who ... Read More »

May 12, 2005

Meeting Dana Cook

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Bibliophiles collect literature and good networkers collect encounters, but Dana Cook, a Toronto freelance indexer, may be the first to collect literary encounters.Cook, an avid outdoorsman who spends his free time camping, canoeing, and running ... Read More »

May 12, 2005

Indies’ choice

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What do McSweeney’s, The Harvard Review, Drawn & Quarterly Books, and Found Magazine have in common? Aside from a collective mass of hipster cachet, they’re all devoted clients of Winnipeg’s Westcan Printing Group.Over the past ... Read More »

May 12, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Mr. Angus goes to Ottawa

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The night that Charlie Angus started working on his biography of Les Costello, he had a dream about the former Toronto Maple Leaf, who quit professional hockey in 1950 to pursue a life as a ... Read More »

May 12, 2005